Gindikin, Simon <br/><br/>
Tales of mathematicians and physicists 
/ Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat 
 - 2nd English edition 
 - xx, 382 pages :  illustrations 
<br/><br/> Translation of: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikhakh. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Ars magna (the great art) Two tales of Galileo Christiaan Huygens and pendulum clocks Secrets of the cycloid Blaise Pascal The beginnings of higher geometry Leonhard Euler Joseph Louis Lagrange Pierre-Simon Laplace Prince of mathematicians Felix Klein The magic world of Henri Poincare The enigma of Ramanujan On the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids The complex world of Roger Penrose 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780387360263 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematicians--Biography<br/>Mathematics--History<br/>Physicists--Biography<br/>Physics--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>510.92